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Climate change destruction 'to accelerate' (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-02-2007 at 06:00:31
| Scotsman: THE next 50 years will see increasing poverty, a lack of drinking water, melting glaciers and a host of vanishing species unless action is taken to tackle climate change, a UN panel of scientists will claim this week. The warning will be part of the latest report, to be released on Friday, from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a body of more than 2,000 international scientists assessing global warming. The report will also address what it terms as a ... |
For the love of the ocean (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-02-2007 at 06:00:31
| Inside Bay Area: TO GET depressed about the state of the world's oceans, you need only flip through the pictures in this month's National Geographic, or skim the Pew Ocean Commission's report, or read the government warning on mercury in fish. We're mucking up the glassy deep and plundering the globe's fisheries and punting the problem to the next generation. Which is why it's important to have an institution like the Monterey Bay Aquarium pushing hard to get kids interested and involved in ... |
Future of coal likely to remain burning issue (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-02-2007 at 06:00:31
| Houston Business Journal: Despite the recent well-publicized success of environmental groups in getting eight proposed coal-fired power plants in Texas scrapped, coal, as a fuel, isn't going away any time soon. That's significant for Houston, which is home to some significant players in the coal industry. The battle between the "green" lobby and the market forces behind coal came to a head recently when New York-based Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. and Fort Worth-based Texas Pacific Group ... |
Impacts of Climate Change (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-02-2007 at 06:00:31
| Reuters: Following are impacts of global warming outlined in a draft UN climate report due to be released in Brussels on April 6. The draft, to be discussed by scientists and government experts in the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, is looking at the regional effects of warming: AFRICA -- Reductions in the area suitable for agriculture, and in length of growing seasons and yield potential, are likely to lead to increased risk of hunger. -- An increase ... |
Oil from palms: scientists weigh the downside of a once-popular alternative (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-02-2007 at 06:00:31
| Associated Press: Only a few years ago, oil from palm trees was viewed as an ideal biofuel: a cheap, renewable alternative to petroleum that would fight global warming. Energy companies began converting generators and production soared. Now, it's increasingly seen as an example of how well-meaning efforts to limit climate-changing carbon emissions may backfire. Marcel Silvius, a climate expert at Wetlands International in the Netherlands, led a team that compared the benefits of palm oil to the ... |
Russia Sees Ill Effects of 'General Winter's' Retreat (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-02-2007 at 06:00:31
| Washington Post: Experts have long feared that Earth's warming climate would cause tropical diseases such as malaria to spread into more temperate zones, but a dramatic example of an apparently climate-related disease outbreak cropped up this winter in a cold place -- Russia. More than 3,000 cases of infections caused by hantaviruses have been reported so far in Russian cities and towns, including many that are within a few hundred miles of Moscow, such as Voronezh and Lipetsk. The viruses can cause a ... |
Scientists Gather for Climate Conference (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-02-2007 at 06:00:31
| Associated Press: Climate change could threaten the lives of hundreds of millions of people in the decades to come, according to a draft of a major report being released this week. Changing weather patterns have already reshaped the world, but they will accelerate in the decades to come, says the report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a United Nations network of 2,000 scientists. Severe drought and devastating floods are among some of the threats to mankind unless action is ... |
The Age Of Warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-02-2007 at 06:00:31
| CBS News: If you were waiting for the day global warming would change the world, that day is here. It's happening, far from civilization's notice, in a place about as remote as you can get. Scientists believed Antarctica, at the bottom of the world, was too vast, too remote, to be bothered by climate change any time soon. But now glaciers are setting speed records for melting. Whole colonies of penguins are disappearing. Why does it matter? Antarctica is a climate giant, driving ocean and wind ... |
Tropical losers, northern winners from warming? (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-02-2007 at 06:00:31
| Reuters: Northern nations such as Russia or Canada may be celebrating better harvests and less icy winters in coming decades even as rising seas, also caused by global warming, are washing away Pacific island states. A draft U.N. report to be issued in Brussels on April 6 foresees unequal impacts from warming: tropical nations from Africa to the Pacific, mostly poor, are likely to bear the brunt but those nearer the poles, mostly rich, may briefly benefit. "At least for a few ... |
Britons 'ignoring' climate fears (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-02-2007 at 06:00:31
| BBC: Two-fifths of Britons are doing nothing to cut energy use, although 80% believe climate change is affecting the UK, a report has suggested. Only 4% of people went on holiday without flying, although 32% said they would consider it, the Energy Saving Trust's Green Barometer report showed. The study suggested tougher measures such as road tolls and carbon rationing were also unpopular. Researchers interviewed 1,192 households in February this year. About 75% of ... |
Climate change: Canada's cruel harvest (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-02-2007 at 06:00:31
| Independent (UK): These are the wrenching images that will once more ignite worldwide recriminations and protest as the Canadian government prepares to give the green light to its annual culling of baby harp seals in spite of new evidence that the population is doubly at risk this year because of collapsing ice cover. The authorities in Ottawa announced last week a sharp reduction in the numbers of pups that hunters will be allowed to kill this spring in a first official acknowledgement of the impact ... |
United States: In maple sugar country, creeping fears grow about climate change (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-02-2007 at 06:00:32
| Associated Press: Maple sugar maker Arthur Berndt has 16,000 maple trees on his Maverick Farm, but he worries about their future. He says branches are dying, trees aren't regenerating as well as they once did and yield less syrup than he expects, given his equipment and technology. He believes climate change may be to blame. "The long-term effects are that sugarmaking in Vermont will become a thing of the past if left unchecked," said Berndt, He sees a grim scenario for the ... |
Canada: Majority favour a new green tax (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-02-2007 at 06:00:32
| CanWest News Service: More than three-quarters of Canadians believe the country's environmental regulations are too weak, while nearly 60 per cent of the population would favour a new green tax on consumer and industrial products to crack down on pollution, a new government study has concluded. The statistics, included in an Environment Canada public opinion survey, come as the minority Conservative government and opposition parties face-off over whether to beef up legislation on air pollution and climate ... |
United States: Offshore wind farm clears hurdle (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-02-2007 at 06:00:32
| Associated Press: A plan to build the nation's first offshore wind farm cleared a key hurdle Friday, winning state approval of an environmental report submitted by the project's developers. Cape Wind Associates hopes to build 130 windmills over 25 miles of federal waters in Nantucket Sound, off the Massachusetts coast. The turbines would reach heights as high as 440 feet above sea level when the tallest blade is pointing straight up, a concern for some opponents. Ian Bowles, the state secretary ... |
The winners and losers of climate change (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-02-2007 at 06:00:32
| Reuters: Northern nations such as Russia or Canada may be celebrating better harvests and less icy winters in coming decades even as rising seas are washing away Pacific island states. A draft UN report to be issued in Brussels at the end of the week foresees unequal impacts from warming: tropical nations from Africa to the Pacific, mostly poor, are likely to bear the brunt but those nearer the poles, mostly rich, may briefly benefit. "At least for a few decades there will be a few ... |
UN to issue grim climate impact warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-02-2007 at 06:00:32
| Agençe France-Presse: The world's top climate scientists are this week to predict dire consequences from global warming for developing nations and species diversity. Even if dramatic measures are taken to reduce the carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions that drive warming, temperatures will still continue to climb for decades to come, they conclude. The experts gathered in Brussels today to hammer out the summary to a massive climate impact dossier compiled to help governments make policy ... |
World's poorest worst hit by climate change: UN scientists (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-02-2007 at 06:00:32
| Radio Australia: The world's top climate scientists are in Brussels to discuss a report that predicts dire consequences from global warming, especially for poor nations and species diversity. Experts conclude that even if dramatic measures are taken to reduce the carbon dioxide emissions that drive warming, temperatures will continue to climb for decades to come. The report by the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change will be unveiled on Friday after its members have approved a ... |
Spain: Climate change: first commercial concentrating solar power plant (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-02-2007 at 06:00:32
| European Business Guide: Research, technological development and demonstration of a new generation of renewable energy technologies has an essential role to play in meeting growing energy demand and allowing Concentrating Solar Power technologies to become another EU success story. The Southern Spanish city of Seville will be host to the first commercial concentrating solar power plant in Europe. The 11 MW plant partly financed with European Union funds, has been designed to produce 23 GWh of electricity a ... |
EU targets hit UK energy strategy (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-02-2007 at 06:00:32
| BBC: Britain's energy plans have been thrown into disarray by ambitious European Union targets, the BBC has learned. Ministers had intended to aim to produce 20% of Britain's electricity from renewable sources by 2020. But a recently-published EU strategy demands that 20% of all energy should come from such sources - four times more renewables than the UK intended. BBC environment correspondent Roger Harrabin said a forthcoming white paper will cover over the policy gaps. ... |
Florida's warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-02-2007 at 06:00:32
| Daytona Beach News-Journal: Florida is finally, officially taking global warming seriously. Gov. Charlie Crist and the Cabinet, with the leadership of Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink, will hold a series of meetings beginning Tuesday on how to position Florida in a globally warming world -- and what to do about it. The Cabinet summoned a list of experts for guidance in a state precariously vulnerable to one of global warming's most immediate threats: rising sea levels. But while Florida talks, California already has ... |
Canada: Vancouver Port Ties Fees to Ship Emission Levels (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-02-2007 at 06:00:32
| Reuters: In a bid to stem growing air pollution, the Port of Vancouver, Canada's largest, will start charging international cargo ships fees that are based partly on a vessel's smokestack emissions. The Port of Vancouver said Friday the new harbor dues system will reward ships that take steps to reduce pollution, such as burning lower-sulfur fuel, by charging them lower dues than it does to ships with higher emission levels. The new fee schedule comes into effect Sunday. Ports ... |
We have passed the tipping point (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-02-2007 at 06:00:32
| Times of India: Scientists and officials from more than 100 countries meet in Belgium from Monday to review and approve a 21-page summary for policymakers in the report amid disputes on some findings, including on how far rising temperatures may contribute to spreading disease. Still, some nations will see some benefits, according to the draft IPCC which draws on work by 2,500 scientists. Global farm potential might increase with a rise of 3 degrees Celsius in temperatures, before sinking worldwide, ... |
Canada: When the roads are full, empty rhetoric's no help (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-02-2007 at 06:00:32
| Globe and Mail: Toronto Mayor David Miller's vague climate-change proposals have strangely little to say about one of the biggest causes of greenhouse-gas emissions in the city: your car. The tailpipes of both gasoline and diesel vehicles are responsible for more than a third of the greenhouse gases Toronto produces, according to the mayor's recently released climate-change discussion paper. The document, which officials insist is only a "framework," includes a graph that suggests ... |
EU slams US, Australia on climate change (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-02-2007 at 06:00:46
| Reuters: The European Union accused the United States and Australia on Monday of hampering international efforts to tackle climate change. "We expect ... the United States to cooperate closer and not to continue having a negative attitude in international negotiations," Environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas told delegates at a United Nations-sponsored meeting to review a report on the regional effects of rising global temperatures. "It is absolutely necessary that they ... |
In record dry spell LA fears the perfect drought (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-02-2007 at 06:00:47
| Deutsche Presse-Agentur: Los Angeles is suffering its driest spell since record-keeping began 130 years ago, fuelling fears that global warming could cause a "perfect drought" that could dry all the far- flung water sources for a region of over 18 million people. According to a report by the National Weather Service on Sunday, Los Angeles has received just 6.27 centimetres of rain since July 1, 2006, compared to an average of 35.4 centimetres. "The rain season is currently the driest to date in ... |
Justices Rule Against Bush Administration on Emissions (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-02-2007 at 06:00:47
| New York Times: The Supreme Court ruled today, in what amounts to a rebuke of the Bush administration, that the Environmental Protection Agency has the authority to regulate carbon dioxide from automobile emissions, and that it has shirked its duty in not doing so. In a 5-to-4 decision, the court found that the Clean Air Act expressly authorizes the E.P.A. to regulate carbon dioxide emissions, contrary to the E.P.A.'s contention, and that if the agency still insists that it does not want to regulate ... |
Top Court: EPA Can Control Emissions (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-02-2007 at 06:00:47
| Associated Press: The Supreme Court ordered the federal government on Monday to take a fresh look at regulating carbon dioxide emissions from cars, a rebuke to Bush administration policy on global warming. In a 5-4 decision, the court said the Clean Air Act gives the Environmental Protection Agency the authority to regulate emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases from cars. Greenhouse gases are air pollutants under the landmark environmental law, Justice John Paul Stevens said ... |
Blow for White House over emissions (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-02-2007 at 06:00:47
| Financial Times: The US Supreme Court on Monday dealt a blow to the White House with a ruling forcing administration officials to rethink their refusal to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. The ruling, one of the most important environmental decisions in years, criticised the US Environmental Protection Agency for giving "no reasoned explanation" for its refusal to regulate carbon dioxide and other emissions from new cars and trucks. The case, Massachusetts v EPA, tested only the ... |
EU Presses United States on Global Warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-02-2007 at 06:00:47
| Associated Press: The EU's chief environmental official urged the United States and Australia to do more to cut greenhouse gases, saying Monday their cooperation was critical in the fight against global warming. At the start of a five-day U.N. climate change conference, EU Environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas criticized the two major holdouts to the 1997 Kyoto Protocol for their reluctance to join the 27-nation EU and other rich countries in fighting climate change. Dimas said the U.S. should ... |
Supreme Court Ruling Opens Door For Global Warming Solutions, Duke Experts Say (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-02-2007 at 06:00:48
| Science Daily: Today's Supreme Court's ruling that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has the power to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from cars opens the door for a concerted, nationwide approach to dealing with global warming, say two Duke University environmental experts. Robert B. Jackson, faculty director of Duke's Center on Global Change and professor of biology, said, "This really confirms what a mountain of evidence already suggests: that carbon dioxide harms the environment as a ... |
US 'must regulate car pollution' (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-02-2007 at 06:00:48
| BBC: The highest court in the US has ruled that the government was wrong to say it did not have the power to regulate exhaust gases from new cars and trucks. Twelve states and 13 campaign groups brought the landmark case against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The US Supreme Court said the EPA had offered "no reasoned explanation" for refusing to regulate carbon dioxide and other harmful gas emissions from cars. The ruling was close, with five judges ... |
Auto industry reacts to court decision (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-02-2007 at 06:00:48
| Associated Press: Automakers called for an economy-wide approach to global warming in reaction to a Supreme Court decision Monday that could give the government the authority to regulate emissions of carbon dioxide and greenhouse gases from cars. The Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, an industry trade group representing General Motors Corp., Ford Motor Co., DaimlerChrysler AG, Toyota Motor Corp. and five others, said in a statement that 'there needs to be a national, federal, economy-wide approach ... |
India: Climate change damaging crops (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-02-2007 at 06:00:48
| Times of India: The UN panel on climate change will tell the world on Friday what damage global warming can wreak in the future. But a recent study shows how temperature changes are already hitting the global economy with the Indian agriculture bearing its brunt. The study proves that agriculture losses, worth $5 billion annually, from 1981-2002, can be correlated with temperature rises over that period. The study, appearing in Environmental Research Letters, a reputed journal published from UK, has ... |
Court ruling may lead to cap and trade (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-02-2007 at 06:00:48
| United Press International\: A U.S. Supreme Court ruling Monday will likely put Congress one step closer to passing a cap-and-trade system for greenhouse gases. The Environmental Protection Agency now has the authority to regulate emissions such as carbon dioxide under the ruling in Massachusetts vs. EPA. The suit was filed by Massachusetts and 11 other states in a dispute over whether emissions such as carbon dioxide meet the Clean Air Act's definition of an "air pollutant" and should be ... |
High Court Tells EPA to Consider Global Warming Steps (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-02-2007 at 06:00:49
| Bloomberg: The U.S. Supreme Court ordered Bush administration environmental officials to reconsider their refusal to regulate greenhouse-gas emissions, giving a boost to advocates of stronger action against global warming. The justices, voting 5-4, today said the Environmental Protection Agency didn't follow the requirements of the Clean Air Act in 2003 when it opted not to order cuts in carbon emissions from new cars and trucks. ``EPA has offered no reasoned explanation for its refusal ... |
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